The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1887-02-12

iell on tie ice Monday and broke her arm.
She is doing as well as can be expected.
Have your sale bills printed at this Of
fice-thereby securing place in our public
sale register published every week 1t will
pay you.
john Z. jenkins, of Shamokin. will
speak or Temperance in the Evangelical
church on Tuesday evening, 18th instant.
All are invited to attend.
An order has been issued by the post.
office department making money orlers
payable at any money order office instead
of one particular Office. as heretofore.
William Evans, for many years inside
superintendent of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company's coal mines at Lans-
ford, died after short illness Sunday.
During 1886 Lip marriage licenses
were issued by the clerk of the Schuylkill
county court. During the same year forty
divorces were granted in the same county.
jacob Smith, wiLower, and Amanda
IIinkle, widow, both of Lehigh county,
were married recently. They both had six
children. They have parted-the reason is
obvious.
Without solicitation the Thomas Iron
Company has advanced the wages of their
employees ten per cent. to date from last
pay day. The men are jubilant over the
advance,
A barn and its contents on the farm of
John Meyer, in upper Heidleburg, was de
stoyed by fire Monday night. Loss, $500:
part insured. The fire is supposed to have
been of incendiary origin.
We would call the attention of our
readers to the advertising columns of the
ADVOCATE, reminding them of the fact
that the merchant who advertises is ever
awake to the interest of his patrons.
The Hazleton Plain Speaker entered
on its sixth year Monday. The Plain
Speaker is the best inland daily newspaper
published in this part of the State and is
always welcome visitor to our table.
-Wii'iam Shive, a bridge contractor, of
Lehigh Gap.fell from the railroad bridge at
Coplay, Tuesday, and was killed. ueI
leaves family. The funeral will take
place at Lehigh Gap, to-day Saturday
Mary Eichlcr, an Allentown girl. at
tempted suicide Monday by taking Paris
green. If inflammation does not set in she
will recover The girl, it appears, was
troubled about young man hamed Kenne
dy.
we hear that some Of our people have
been victimized by pow-wow doctor re-
Gently, who represented that he had made
cures of certain persons hereaboms. One
person so represented, denies that he had
employed said pow-wower. Humbugged
again.
The anthracite coal producing com
Fanies state that when the strike at New
York is lifted they will te hard pushed to
meet the demand. The market is bare of
coal and there are orders enough now OH
hand to absorb nearly double the quantity
of coal now in stock.
When is Tulip coming?
Several capitalists from Lebanon, in.
terested with Wemer Bros, have been in
Tamaqua during the past week examining
the Allen machine shops. and it is very
probable that they win lease the same
The shops can easily furnish work for two
hundred men, and the machinery is of the
latest and most improved kind.
-Wife-''I don't see how you can saw
that Mr.. Whtechoker has an cffcminate
way of talking. He has a very loud voice"
Husband-"I mean by efTeminate way of
talking, nay dear, that he talks all the
time" The ill-feeling was amicahiy adj
justed by the parties taking drive I'm one
of David Ebbert's fancy turn outs. Livery
on North street.
Counterfeit silver dollars are said to be
in circulation and are so ceverly executed
as to be calculated to deceive almost any
one. They are said to be exactly the same
weight as the genuine coin, and have a true
ring, On the counterfeit there is a peculiar
curve in the letter ''d'' in the motto, 'In
God we trust" the ''d' slopihg backwards
like an italic letter. Look out for them,
DIR. j. p. Engleman, living near Slat-
Ington, few nights since gave a ride to
person whom he supposed at first to be
woman, but afterward suspected of being
man. By ruse he got the stranger to
step from the carriage, when he whipped
up his horse and escaped. A muff with
loaded revolver in it was afterward found
in the carriage. The above is re-hash of
very old yarn, The DIR. says he knows
nothing about the affair
Buffalo township, in Butler county,
has one of the most faithful School Direc-
tors in the State. lie visits the school
nearly every week and was under the i'm
preston until one day last week that he
would be paid for each day that he spent
visiting the schools. In conversation with
the teacher he discovered his mistake, and
1t paralyzed him to such an extent that he
went to sleep in the school room that after
noon, much to the edifcation of the pupils
Little Bo-peep wOnld have found her
sheep long ago, had she told them she
would cure their distemper with Days
Horse Powder
An excellent remedy. Dr. Bulls Balti-
more Pills are superior as a cathartic to
any Other in all cases in which purgative
is employed, Price 25c.
DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup has wonderful
influence in subduing the diseases of baby
hood. 1t has saved the lives of many chill
dren.
-rullpl Tulip! Tullpl